Engineered wood installation quote

GoldenFruit

Hi

I'm getting quotes in for wooden floor installation.

- Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Hallway. Approx 40 sq metres.
- Will include new skirting and a membrane to put on top of current floorboards and adjustments to doors if needed

Quote below

£2630, £3156 (incl VAT)

This works out at £78 labour per square metre

MSaxp

Hi, I don't know why nobody has commented on this.

I am not an expert, but we've had multiple quotes at around £10-£15/sq m for installing a floor.

This is for outside London and without requiring any significant alterations.

Your quote sounds very very expensive, unless it includes the flooring.

KateLiana27

Does your quote really not include the wood? It is extremely high for just labour.

We're paying £25/m2 including VAT in a new room for solid wood installation. Not London/SE. That includes all fitting materials apart from the wood itself (which we paid £48/m2 for; would have been £38/m2 for engineered wood).

Silvertabby

If that really is for labour and skirting etc (not the wood) then £78/m2 is way too high even for London.

We (not London) paid about £30/m2 for labour and skirting etc last year. That was for the hallway, lounge and dining room and so not just a nice easy square room.

stueyhants

Just need to factor in that you are doing 4 separate rooms which all means all the extra work involved with the edges and door ways, I think £30 a meter for a nice square room is fine but expect to pay a bit more because of the fact you have 4 rooms. However £78 without the wood itself the guy is having a laugh.

GoldenFruit

Thanks all. Yes it's without the wood so factoring this in I'm looking at £5K which is far too much.
I'm getting in other quotes and have a baseline to work with.

Best

smallblueplanet

Here's an approx. quote given to me last weekend for everything bar the engineered wood on a concrete floor:

Primer - £4/m2
Screed - £11/m2
Fit scotia - £5/m2
Underlay (I think as it says UL) - £4-6/m2
Fitting of wood - £12/m2

somethingcorporate

2-4 times higher than it should be, get some other quotes pronto!